Because we are created in God's image; and God is a virus.
That has so many levels to it, physical and psychological.
I'm sure glad I don't have to trek up to some out of the way grotto up on a mountain to get your succint but deep expressions.
Midget-Sasquatch
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Hybrid Alien Humans
by Satanus inthis from the magazine 'wired' http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,65252,00.htmlmore than 500 different species of bacteria exist in our bodies, making up more than 100 trillion cells.
because our bodies are made of only some several trillion human cells, we are somewhat outnumbered by the aliens.
it follows that most of the genes in our bodies are from bacteria, too.
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Hybrid Alien Humans
by Satanus inthis from the magazine 'wired' http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,65252,00.htmlmore than 500 different species of bacteria exist in our bodies, making up more than 100 trillion cells.
because our bodies are made of only some several trillion human cells, we are somewhat outnumbered by the aliens.
it follows that most of the genes in our bodies are from bacteria, too.
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Midget-Sasquatch
Viruses today spread genes among bacteria and humans and other cells, as they always have... We are our viruses ? Lynn Margulis
Isn't the interconnectedness of it all so much more awe-inspiring than the idea of separately fashioned creatures?
I believe it was Carl Sagan's ex wife that first put forward the idea that mitochondria developed from symbiotic fusion of one prokaryotic cell with another cell. Its cool to see just how much "alien" genes are a part of us. From the bacterial origins of the mitochondria that powers us, to the retroviruses that have inserted themselves into our nuclear DNA.
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Update: France's 60% tax on WT
by Midget-Sasquatch in.
they'll have to pay up!
http://www.jw-media.org/newsroom/index.htm?content=/region/europe/france/english/releases/religious_freedom/fra_e041006.htm
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Midget-Sasquatch
Sorry for reposting old news. I should've scanned threads from last week first.
Nark....The government of France almost makes we wish I were French and not Italian-Canadian. :)
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Why do my family still treat me like I have the "plague"?
by booker-t inwhen i "disassociated" myself in the early 90's i thought that finally i could go on with my life and not have to be subjuected to wt rules and regulations.
wrong!
my family will not let it go.
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Midget-Sasquatch
Booker-t,
Isn't it crazy? If you try to look at it from the perspective of who really is trying to live a life free of lies and trying to do what they believe is right, then damn it, these dubs are all backward and whacked!!!
I'm just "weak" to those in the congegation I've switched to, but I made the mistake of raising some doubts to my family. Its really all about submission and control and conditioning. Others may have gotten layed and drugged up, but if they don't commit the cardinal sin of questioning the Org, they're not a real threat to anyone else's faith. Dissenters are a pariah. The Org has conditioned them to put up walls to anything that will puncture the fantasy.
Its infuriating but you'll be much better off when you accept that its a dynamic you can't change for them. If you just keep religion out of anything you say to them, you'll be less of a perceived threat. Then you may be able to cirumvent those walls and talk a little.
I wish you the best.
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Update: France's 60% tax on WT
by Midget-Sasquatch in.
they'll have to pay up!
http://www.jw-media.org/newsroom/index.htm?content=/region/europe/france/english/releases/religious_freedom/fra_e041006.htm
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Are JWs "Approval Whores"?
by Scully induring a quiet moment at work the other night, i picked up a back issue of o magazine, one of the current quintessentially authoritative journalistic voices of the modern north american woman.
it was the december 2003 issue, and i was intrigued by the title of the article: "the halo effect" which promised to examine the condition of 'being too good' for one's own good.
the preamble contained the phrase "self-sacrificing" and i was immediately zapped by that standard jw buzz-word and the article's suggestion that being "self-sacrificing" is not all it's cracked up to be.. you can read the article here: stop seeking approval.
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Midget-Sasquatch
Thanks for that great article Scully!
Its actually made me feel much better about myself. It gave clear concrete form to thoughts that have been germinating in my pea brain for a long time.
Of "the currently overcompensating for his runtiness, so he won't publically admit to reading O Class"
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Cancer Cure?
by metatron in.
i can't speak for the accuracy of this claim but the bbc is usually pretty good.. .
metatron
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Midget-Sasquatch
The mice that are being used are genetically modified so that the antibiotic will turn the gene on and off, so this will not work on just anyone... unless you want your genome rewritten.
Good Catch Elsewhere.
Designer research animals...we're getting closer to that bright brave new world every day.
I'm hopeful that they'll find the natural sites within the genome that regulate expression of Myc and other cancer related genes. If they can make designer proteins that can inhibit expression of those specific genes then one can expect very similar results.
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The NEED for Acknowledgement and Validation..what do you think?
by LyinEyes ini was flipping thru the channels a few minutes ago and the oprah show was on with an interview with tatum o'neal .
i havent watched all of the show but from what i can get from it so far,,,,,,tatum has a bad relationship with her father , she has written a book about it all.
she and oprah were talking about what could make her have peace with her father and so on .
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Midget-Sasquatch
Made to be an outsider in one world, and personally feeling like one in the jw universe: validation and acknowledgement for who I was was something I really needed and never got from the dubs.
But I've met up with a whole slew of people later on at university and work that started to make me feel a bit better about myself. Little stuff always did it. Because they were without agendas or conditions.
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The Stem Cell experiment, good or bad?
by Brummie init was discussed by the president & kerry, it will be all over the news over the next few days because of the death of a hero, for some reason the stem cell issue scares me and i dont think i could support it, taking some voiceless life to improve another, maybe i am misinformed?
it all seems unethical.
i dont know all the facts, can you enlighten me please?.
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Midget-Sasquatch
But its as much a life as any other living thing.
Mmm... life, as we know it, is characterised by MOTION, REPRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION, GROWTH and STIMULUS RESPONSE . Groups of cell, whilst being 'live' do not sometimes qualify as 'life' by the above definiton.True enough, which is why I should correct my statement to "But its still alive like any other living thing." -which wouldn't affect/alter any of my other points. But here's something to mull over.
The zygote consumes the stored energy from the ovum. Cell multiplication is growth. The cells within the zygote respond to chemical factors from adjacent cells and they influence the differentiation of each other. Now just because that biological entity at that stage, is not yet developed into the form where it will have motion or later reproduction, one can technically draw the line at that point. I can see your point. Its a logical and objective spot to choose IMHO. But taking all the other criteria into consideration, I don't think biologists would generally deny that zygotes are a form of life, only because its at an early stage that doesn't manifest all the criteria.
Sixofnine
What's more, we can grow these cells the same way we grow cells for all types of medical research right now, so if we are "playing god", then so what? Are we "playing god" when we do anything positive for humanity that overcomes nature's problems?
Re-read my post. I'm all for stem cell research. I've got no qualms with the use of these cells because IMHO destroying them cheapens life more than using those cells to help others.
The fact that abortions naturally occur, even say more than half of the time,only speaks to imperfections of the whole system. I'm the last person who'd say its all sacred. But just because living things are easily snuffed out doesn't negate them being alive for a time. I want to be clear, I'm not equating their use to killing a person because biologically speaking it hasn't reached that stage yet. But I still think zygotes are alive and a form of life.
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The Stem Cell experiment, good or bad?
by Brummie init was discussed by the president & kerry, it will be all over the news over the next few days because of the death of a hero, for some reason the stem cell issue scares me and i dont think i could support it, taking some voiceless life to improve another, maybe i am misinformed?
it all seems unethical.
i dont know all the facts, can you enlighten me please?.
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Midget-Sasquatch
Let me start off by saying that I'm for stem cell research.
But I'd have to disagree with the viewpoint that the zygote or ball of undiferentiated cells is not a life. Its not a "life" as in say a person or fetus. If that's what is meant then I see can that. But its as much a life as any other living thing.
That said, I believe that procuring these zygotes should be done in a dignified manner like organ donation. Using unwanted embryos in stem cell research is attributing them a greater value than just destroying them.